Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn Summoned by her eccentricAppleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco s 1 P.I Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth of a gale, taking a busman s holiday to investigate mysterious acts of vandalism that are running the project to ruin But when simple sabotage escalates to savage murder, she finds herself trapped on the island with a desperate killer and flung into a raging storm of treachery, violence, and sudden death.

Title: Eye of the Storm

Author: Marcia Muller

ISBN: 9780445406254

Page: 280

Format: Paperback

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This kinda fizzled instead of popped for me, but it was fun. Strange happenings occur in a Victorian wreck of a mansion isolated on an island accessible by a makeshift ferry only, and the ferry's engine breaks down in the middle of a terrible thunder and lightening wind storm, while a murderer is stalking our favorite detective Sharon McCone and her clients, one of whom is her counterculture sister and her three young children. The sister and her adult business partners want to open a fancy Bed [...]

Who’s killing the new occupants of Appleby Island?Sharon McCone’ sister, Pasty, asked her to visit the Island to determine why someone is sabotaging their efforts to open an exclusive Bed and Breakfast. After learning the history of the Island, McCone realized that the killer is not a stranger but is one of the partners. It’s up to McCone to expose the killer and the killer’s reason for wanting everyone off Appleby Island.Eye of the Storm was a good read and Bernadette Dunne does a good [...]

Eye of the Storm is the 8th title in the PI Sharon McCone series. which to date contains more than thirty entries. Sharon is confident in her professional skills, but a bit bummed by the trough into which her personal life seems mired. She hasn't seen her sister Patsy in quite some time, and when she sends an SOS requesting her help, Sharon travels to Appleby's Island in the Sacramento Delta. Patsy is working with friends to convert the decrepit mansion, complete with its own ghost, into a posh [...]

This is a comforting series, not too demanding, predictable, yet still interesting and not stupid. Sharon McCone, the PI, is a strong silent (ish) woman like Kinsey Milhone. This entry is a bit scary and pretty suspenseful. Sharon is summoned to an island home that her sister and friends are converting to a B&B. In the midst of a dangerous storm who is trying to scare them off the island, and why?

This one was kind of like those episodes of Scooby Doo that had a special guest star, except instead of Meadowlark Lemon or Phyllis Diller showing up to help the Scooby gang, it's Sharon McCone who's dropping in at the haunted mansion."And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling P.I.!"

Sharon is asked by her sister Patsy to investigate mysterious goings-on at a run down mansion on an island in the Sacramento River delta region where she hopes to open a restaurant with her new boyfriend. A ghostly figure seems to be haunting the area around the mansion. Then a ferryman who runs the only ferry to the island disappears and is presumed dead, and a visitor is smothered to death as he sleeps. A heavy rain storm strands the guests overnight and Sharon finds some old books and documen [...]

Wow! This book was a real thriller to me! Being on an island during a horrible storm, with a murderer on the island as well was so intense! There are actually a couple of stories going on in the book but Muller keeps the action going until the very end of the novel! I was stumped by all that was happening on this island. I will now have to read some more of Marcia Muller's books.

I usually enjoy this series, but I found this one to be very frustrating. Far much time spent trying to build suspense when really the storyline was to weak to support it. I have renamed this book Eye of the storm in a tea cup. I will read the next in the series and just hope this was a once off.

"Eye of the Storm" could almost be one of those Agatha Christie atmospheric brain teasers: Twelve people (ten, if you leave out the two youngest children) are isolated "Ten Little Indians" style in an old mansion on an island in the Sacramento Delta. There's an ancient family curse, a series of sinister and unexplained events, and a powerful storm that cuts off the electricity and all communication with the outside world. The rest of this review includes spoilers. You have been warned.But Marcia [...]

I received this audiobook from AudioGo to be reviewed. It was written by Marcia Muller, narrated by Laura Hicks , and originally published in 1989.Sharon McCone, a private investigator, receives a request from her sister to come to Appleby Island where she and fellow investors have been experiencing some strange events. They are in the process of converting the Appleby mansion into a "Botel", a bed a breakfast accessible only by boat. Does someone want them off the island? Does someone mean to d [...]

Eye of the Storm: Sharon McCone no. 8, by Marcia Muller, a-minus, Narrated by Laura Hicks, Produced by Audiogo, downloaded from audible.Sharon is visited by her youngest sister, Patsy, who seems quite emotionally upset. Patsy and her new lover have moved to Appleby Island in the California Delta, where a large estate had been built by the previous island’s owner who had committed suicide two years earlier.The island had been sold, and Patsy and her lover were investing in what was going to be [...]

I liked this newest McCone novel quite a bit.One of the most interesting things is that Muller really moved out of the series' comfort zone. This one was pratically a Gothic horror. It was complete with haunted house (an old mansion on the delta), a disaster keeping everyone inside (the nominal storm), and an old family mystery. I thought it was quite well done.I'm also struck by how much trying-to-figure-out-a-major-life-change is a trope in these mystery series. Spenser had it when Susan aband [...]

Sharon is off to work on a case offered up by her younger sister Patsy, who has sold off her commune/farm and is now part owner of a Bed & Breakfast starting up on an island off the California Delta area. Patsy is concerned as there's been some weird happenings at the B&B, as though someone does not want it to succeed--spooky hauntings, equipment sabotaged, that kind of thing. So she enlists her big sister the PI to help her, and Sharon begs off on a long weekend from her job at All Soul [...]

#7 in the Sharon McCone series. An intriguing visit to the Sacramento Delta area in northern California where Sharon will be call upon to solve what the weather has turned into a locked-room (island) mystery.Sharon McCone is lured away from San Francisco to what she thinks will be a weekend "busman's holiday." Her sister Patsy has invited her to Appleby Island, once home to an agricultural tycoon, the decrepit mansion is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast inn. Soon after beginning, strange [...]

I enjoy the Sharon McCone stories. Thought I would go back to one of the earlier ones. Here her sister Patsy has asked for help (hey! My sister used to go by Patsy). She and some friends are going into business together - boatel. I guess you pull up in your boat and stay in a mansion. Don't think I've heard of this, either because I don't own a boat or they don't have them on Lake Michigan. Anyway, there are strange occurrences on Appleby Island and Patsy is freaked and it is also freaking her k [...]

Marcia Muller wrote the first series of female private detective novels. I love her main character, Sharon McCone. I have been reading this series for many years and was excited to find one that I hadn't read before. It's always interesting to go back and read an earlier book in a series where you have read later ones. For instance, the family dynamics are fascinating. I particularly enjoyed Sharon's relationship with her nephew, Andrew. It was very difficult to guess who was responsible for the [...]

In the 7th installment of Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone PI series, Eye of the Storm, Sharon returned back with another early and classic mystery. This time, she headed to the Sacramento Delta area to Appleby Island to help out her sister Patsy out. While her sister and her new lover had turned an old mansion into an elegant B&B, she encountered rumors of ghosts, murder and vandalism. It was up to Sharon to figure it out and stop whoever who was behind it.

Sharon's sister is trying to start a luxury hotel in the Sacramento delta, but someone is sabotaging it. The atmospheric environment upstages every person on the island, even the white-knuckled historical characters. I used to live not far from here, so this meant even more to me than the exciting story ordinarily would have.

I LOVED this book! I woke up in the middle of the night and had to get up to finish the book. I have had a summer of Sharon McCone, and this was the best book so far! I'm already on to #9 in the series!

from the library7 cassettes 10 hours unabridged? fictionno sexstrong female characters both good and badthe detective and the killer were female!good presentation of children and how to talk to children, especially in an emergency

This is an early Sharon McCone book. I thought the plot was kind of contrived. I loved the setting though. I didn't realize there was a delta of the Sacramento River. Very interesting area of California.

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Eye of the Storm By Marcia MullerAppleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn Summoned by her eccentricAppleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco s 1 P.I Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth of a gale, taking a busman s holiday to investigate mysterious acts of vandalism that are running the project to ruin But when simple sabotage escalates to savage murder, she finds herself trapped on the island with a desperate killer and flung into a raging storm of treachery, violence, and sudden death.